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m2broth
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Problem with converting svg to pdf

Postby m2broth » Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:01 pm

I was tried convert svg file to pdf using inkscape command line. In attachments there are input svg file and converted by inkscape pdf file. After converting i was open pdf file in Adobe Illustrator and my mask in svg was broken. Inkscape correct transforming masks from svg to vector pdf? I can't understand why mask from svg in pdf was broken.
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ftest.pdf
resulting pdf
(11.33 KiB) Downloaded 253 times
finaltest.svg
input svg
(1.41 KiB) Downloaded 337 times
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Re: Problem with converting svg to pdf

Postby Lazur » Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:37 pm

Once I made a test on what can be achieved with saving as pdf and what not. I remember that using gradients and such things in the masking objects doesn't work.
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Re: Problem with converting svg to pdf

Postby m2broth » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:26 pm

Do you any other tools for correct converting svg to pdf with vectors and masks?
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Re: Problem with converting svg to pdf

Postby m2broth » Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:56 pm

After converting svg to pdf using rsvg-converter i was take this result in adobe illustrator http://i.piccy.info/i7/653f328a0dbeaf90 ... trator.png
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Re: Problem with converting svg to pdf

Postby brynn » Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:44 am

Well, PNG is a raster format, so you probably won't be able to do much with it in Illustrator. And if all you needed was a PNG, you still could use Inkscape. What has the PNG to do with converting SVG to PDF? Plus, I don't see any mask in your PNG (or what was a mask before you rasterized it).
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Re: Problem with converting svg to pdf

Postby m2broth » Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:58 pm

brynn wrote:Well, PNG is a raster format, so you probably won't be able to do much with it in Illustrator. And if all you needed was a PNG, you still could use Inkscape. What has the PNG to do with converting SVG to PDF? Plus, I don't see any mask in your PNG (or what was a mask before you rasterized it).

Hm:) i was converting svg to pdf, where you find that i'm convert to png?) i privede link with png image - its screenshot that show how illustrator open converted pdf
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Re: Problem with converting svg to pdf

Postby brynn » Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:08 pm

Well, I was just thinking it might be more helpful to upload the PDF, so people could test whether they could open it in AI.

To be honest, I was really confused about your message. Assuming the canvas/editor that we see in the PNG, is the AI canvas/editor/window (I've never seen before), it appears that your technique was not successful, because the editor is empty -- no image in there. So then I thought the SVG that you convert to PDF was originally an image of a blank AI canvas/editor/window. But if that's the case, I can't find any object in there that looks like a mask, which was the original subject of this thread.

So all in all, a lot of confusion. Now that I understand why you posted the PNG, I think a better response from me would be: It looks like it didn't work, because the canvas area/editor/AI window appears to be blank or empty. So it seems like it didn't work after all?
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